FE REPORT | 2023-11-04 12:00:00
Stocks continued their decline for the second consecutive week, as the nationwide blockade enforced by the BNP and other opposition parties in the run-up to the elections keep investors jittery.The market has remained in a bearish trend for over a...
MAN Siddique, Managing Director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), the state-owned metro rail planner, constructor and operator, joined the company when the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6's progress was only 1.0 per cent. Though its depot land development...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2023-11-04 12:00:00
It is unfortunate for Bangladesh that the majority of the critical infrastructures inevitably end up being delayed. The latest to fall foul to this trend is the single-point mooring (SMP) project launched in 2015 and was slated to be completed...
The country's first mass rapid transit (MRT) line has been built on an elevated structure along a 20.1-kilometre corridor. More than a dozen local manufacturing companies have supplied certain percentages of materials like cement, steel, rod, in constructing the elevated...
Traders load fish and other produce onto pick-up vans outside the busy Jatrabari wholesale market in the city on Friday morning before transportation to various destinations across the city and beyond. — FE photo
Saudi Arabia has expressed interest in buying a multibillion-dollar stake in the Indian Premier League (IPL), the world's richest cricket league, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter, reports Reuters.Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-04 00:00:00
A group of 67 eminent citizens in the country called upon on Friday the government to release Secretary General of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. In a statement issued on the day, they also opined that the...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2023-11-04 00:00:00
The Roads and Highways Department would spend a staggering Tk 61.40 billion from state coffers on land acquisition only before going to widen the Bhanga-Jashore-Benapole road, said insiders on Wednesday."If the acquisition alone costs this fabulous amount, how much will...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-04 00:00:00
BNP vowed to continue its anti-government movement until a last man of the party remains free (not in prison), said Senior Joint Secretary General of the party Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday. "The government of Awami League again tries to...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2023-11-04 00:00:00
The "unstructured" and "inconsistent" implementation of the Bangladesh Flag Vessel Act and subsequent rules are causing severe uncertainties for foreign flag ships plying to and from Chittagong port and regional transhipment ports, stakeholders allege.They say the "inappropriate" use of some...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-04 00:00:00
Speakers at a discussion to pay tribute to Nobel laureate and economist Amartya Sen have said all of his works are devoted to the 'welfare of the common man'.Mr Sen believes good quality of development does not come without democracy,...
The Hamas government in Gaza said Friday an Israeli strike hit a convoy of ambulances, which the health ministry said killed multiple people near the territory's largest hospital, report agenciesA government statement said Israeli forces targeted "a convoy of ambulances...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged her party members to create resistance against the arsonists in every area in an organized manner, taking the people on board, reports UNB."Now you will have to build resistance against these arsonists in...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-04 00:00:00
Health authorities on Friday reported 10 additional deaths due to mosquito-borne dengue fever, taking the total fatalities to 1,380 this year. Of the new fatalities, 6 were from outside Dhaka and 4 were from Dhaka. Of the total deaths, 816...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2023-11-04 00:00:00
Innovative small bank accounts designed for have-nots turn out as as remittance booster and accumulator of umpteen schoolchildren's savings that help heal liquidity ills, bankers say. The number of NFAs or no-frill accounts grew by 1.81 per cent to over...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-11-04 00:00:00
Another milestone in communications is reached in Bangladesh with the Agargaon-Motijheel metro-rail mainline opening today for commuters to cross 20-kilometre corridor in 31 minutes on maiden electric train over crowded Dhaka.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to ride a decorated...
YASIR WARDAD | 2023-11-04 00:00:00
Poorer sections of people get less on their platters as rice price in Bangladesh defies global downturn in October upswing, disproportionately to FAO indices, market surveys show. Prices of the staple started increasing last month in veritable defiance of the...
Dhaka ranked third on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality with an AQI index of 170 at 10:00am on Friday, reports UNB.The air was classified as 'unhealthy', according to the air quality index.India's Delhi and Pakistan's...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested a man in connection with the death of renowned TV actress Humaira Himu, reports bdnews24.com.The suspect, Ziauddin alias Rumi, was apprehended in the city on Friday, said RAB media wing Assistant Director Al...
Shortly after the 22-day ban on hilsa fishing ended, fishermen returned from the sea with a fairly large catch of the silver fish. The picture was taken from Mohipur and Alipur fish-landing station in Kuakata of Patuakhali district on Friday...
A team of police trying to defuse a bomb-like object wrapped with red scotch tape found on the rail track in Ishwardi rail station area of Pabna in the early hours of Friday — Focus Bangla
CHATTOGRAM, Nov 03 (UNB): Two people were killed and another injured when a speeding covered van rammed into a CNG-run autorickshaw on Bayezid Link Road in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram district on Friday.The dead, Md Monir (50) and Mohammad Ziaur...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 03 (BSS): Indian tourist visa will be available within two days of application from the current month in addition to the existing medical visa.Assistant Indian High Commissioner (HC) in Rajshahi Manoj Kumar revealed thiswhile visiting the Indian Visa...
Post and Telecommunication Minister Mustafa Jabbar has said students must develop other skills alongside traditional education for progress in life, reports BSS."Class education is only a small part of building a career. To progress in life, one must develop other...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-04 00:00:00
The drought that has engulfed the Barind tract is threatening to catch south and central regions as temperature rise continues unabated, warned speakers at a workshop ahead of COP28.Global warming has also brought in a shift in seasonal weather behaviours,...
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman and his gang of killers had unequivocal involvement with both Bangabandhu assassination on August 15 and murders of four national leaders inside Dhaka jail on November 3 in...
Those who were involved with setting fire on vehicles and killing of a policeman in the capital on October 28 BNP's rally will be brought to book, reports BSS.Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mohammad Harun or Rashid made...
NARAYANGANJ, Nov 03 (BSS): A case was filed against 76 BNP men for arson attacks, vandalism and exploding cocktails in Siddhirganj under Sadar upazila.Officer-in-Charge of Siddhirganj Thana Golam Mostofa confirmed.Sub Inspector of the Thana Humayun Kabir filed the case last...
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